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Particularly if one sees modern social ills as entirely compatible with legal ‘equality’ and hence ‘justice’, then it is precisely one’s concern for social justice that undermines one’s respect for law.

First, it is absurd to claim that because he does not see law surviving beyond capitalism, Pashukanis does not value justice. The equation of law and justice is ideological: law deals only with an abstract ‘justice’ between juridical subjects rather than concrete human agents, as Pashukanis makes clear.